Originally Posted by
sba110
There is no risk for me as a pilot; you bear the risk all alone, namely that you will be charged with a few felony counts of obstructing.
Obstructing? What's being obstructed? Is it paranoia, or is it something else?
The ones who are really doing the obstructing are the FA and/or pilot by wasting time with such a non-issue instead of paying attention to passenger-safety related issues.
Damn those meal carts and the FAs that push them; they're both obstructing [the aisle].